Anyone interested in task-based fMRI I'd love to meet you at poster #1808 today! Cognitive Modes Detectable with Task-Based fMRI Or, just read the book 😀: osf.io/preprints/ps... #OHBM2025 #fMRI

After many (many) years of work with Dr. Chantal Percival we have open-science published an "edited book" Cognitive Modes Detectable with Task-Based fMRI. Results on a total of 28 tasks are reported. Percival C. M., & Woodward, T. S. (Eds.) (2025). osf.io/preprints/ps...

we aspire to provide that "one place" at jocnf.pubpub.org, which is explicitly set up to host threaded discussions. It's taking rather longer than we had hoped to really catch on, but it's ready when you are!

Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...

"These guidelines were written by almost-retired professors who never could have met these standards back in the 1980s, when all you needed for tenure was 1.5 publications and a bottle of scotch in your desk." buff.ly/TOh3MUc

When you get booted out of your lab space .. U-Haul is there for you. They can take away the space but they can't take away the science! Thanks to UBC Psychiatry for accommodating our EEG/tACS neuromod equipment that was downsized(?) out of our hospital site.

Another cognitive mode uploaded! This time, focus on Visual Feature (FoVF). Chantal Percival the lead author. Meet the Stay Puff and Old Blue Eyes pattern. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Default Mode A vs B! Delighted to pre-publish a detailed anatomical and functional description of DMA in tasks with incoming grad student Solana Redway leading the way. DMA appears to be reciprocally related to the language mode. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/y8oc1w2v... “Indeed, for most of these companies, the science is an afterthought - get the product to market first and worry about the science later. Compounding the problem is the fact that public trust in science - and that includes cognitive neuroscience - is at “

Highly recommended reading for those conducting fMRI to investigate behaviour, if I do say so myself :) We are ready to take your calls (via the JoCN Forum) for any feedback, ideas, debate, praise, and so on.

Thank you so much!! I'm very honored

Using tACS? So many decisions to make (stimulation frequency/montage), but the task matters too, and could help direct tACS effects to specific brain areas. Trainee Dr. Abhijit Chinchani's excellent work is now available in pre-print form: osf.io/preprints/ps... @abhijitchinchani.bsky.social

Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI: A series of manuscripts from the Woodward Lab at the University of British Columbia, which detail the anatomy and function of cognitive modes detectable by fMRI. www.theurlist.com/woodward-lab...

Oh and look at this: 4(!) clinical psych positions at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon (where I did undergrad): universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Don't hide the good stuff! We welcome comments on our JoCN Forum post on how focus on spatial information in task-based fMRI has slowed cognitive neuroscience, and that advancement would have been accelerated by including task-induced BOLD signal changes. jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/wck63qhg...

New post by @abhijitchinchani.bsky.social, @evalab.bsky.social, and @twoodward.bsky.social: "Don’t hide the good stuff: Scientific advancement in task-based fMRI is slowed by not showing event-related BOLD (erBOLD) changes alongside anatomical patterns" doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Delighted to share another cognitive mode detectable by task-based fMRI: Initiation (INIT). Anatomical patterns and how its BOLD changes are affected by 5 experiments: osf.io/preprints/ps... #fMRI @danjlurie.bsky.social @hritz.bsky.social @evalab.bsky.social

Dr. Seiji Ogawa discovered and coined "Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent" BOLD contrast - used in almost all fMRI today. It was my great honor to interview him over two days on the very beginnings of fMRI, and so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBK...

What with the new regime taking over today it's a confusing time. #revolution #make_academia_great_again But the #good_news is I have a new release coming out Friday with the Natural Philosophers with Attitude. If you are on Spotify you can pre-save the tracks here 👇 distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

If you use BOLD based fMRI in your research, take a moment to wish Seiji Ogawa a happy 91st birthday on Sunday, Jan 19th. His research launched thousands of careers and provided an invaluable to look inside our brains.

ok but also schej.it is like a when2meet that integrates w google cal

Our thoughts are with our @ohbmofficial.bsky.social colleagues in Los Angeles facing devastating fires. As for all members suffering around the globe, #OHBM stands with you, offering support and solidarity. Wishing everyone safety and strength in the New Year. humanbrainmapping.org/files/ChairL...

I had a great discussion with Vesa Kiviniemi, from Oulu University. He described his latest work using high speed whole brain acquisition (MREG) to characterize brain pulsations - and perhaps hints of the glymphatic system. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis - Amazing work by @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social and @demidenko.bsky.social and many thanks to all of our collaborators! If you are using the monetary incentive delay (MID) task you should definitely read this.

in press 💫 Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Perturbs the Brain‐Wide Excitation‐Inhibition Balance: Associations w/ Microcircuits, Clinical Parameters, and Cognitive Dysfunction ↙️ paper ↙️ advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... multisite & multiscale ↙️ by @kexie.bsky.social & a dream team 💫

Had a wonderful chat with Andy Jahn on Andy's BrainCast! Andy, you were such a gracious host. We went over cognitive modes detectable by fMRI, interpretation, reverse inference, task vs. rest fMRI, how to emphasize anatomical patterns, etc. It's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDSG...

You cannot decode perceived basic emotions categories using fMRI MVPA in just the amygdala... We've tried it, you've tried it, everyone's tried it, no one's talked about it... It doesn't work. The amygdala doesn't work like that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Neuroimaging Resource Alert: The NIH fMRI Summer Course has recorded talks available on YouTube from 2024, 2019, and 2018: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/index.php/Su... And we're actively working on uploading talks from 2014-2017! #fmri #neuroimaging

We are excited to announce the review of Lades et al. (2020) "Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic". Based on the review by Joop Adema, we find Moderate Errors which do not affect the core conclusions. We recommend the authors seek a correction error.reviews/reviews/lade...

To mark the completion of my textbook, The Neuroscience of Language, I'll be posting some tidbits from my book over the coming months. Some will be languagey and some will be little rabbit holes that distracted me along the way. Enjoy! #neuroscienceoflanguage jonathanpeelle.net/the-neurosci...

First read this paragraph from Smolin's The Trouble With Physics during my master's in philosophy of science and carried it with me when I moved to experimental science myself. Neuroscience has a set of troubles of its own, but the message about individual courage resonates with all spheres of life.

Rather than a typical neurosalience Podcast, we decided to post a talk I gave at OHBM on my perspective on podcasting and Neurosalience - and how I prepare for each. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ohb...

I was today years old when I found out that famous labs average multiple trials/blocks of fMRI data before running multiple linear regression/GLM 🤯 This breaks so many principles of statistics that one could write an entire book...

Amazing collective problem solving in ants:

The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH.... ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 If you are a statistician, teach statistics, or even just use statistics, this is a highly recommended read. What a horror story which probably most of us know little about. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

Another cognitive mode detectable by task-based fMRI: Auditory Perception (AUD). Anatomical patterns and how its BOLD changes are affected by three different types of speech perception experiments: osf.io/preprints/ps...

A bit late posting, but I invite you to check out the OHBM neurosalience podcast when I had the honour of being interviewed by the inspirational and always welcoming and engaging Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=chKG...

I’m never forgetting these names, 10/10

I really enjoy how you guys are interrogating this a different sub-processes across task. It's such a great approach! I wish I could find more time to read all these papers. It's so hard to keep up with all the cool stuff happening. You guys should write a nice review :)

Starting a petition to require that all new papers containing fMRI task activation maps must report their results using the same kind of delightful descriptions found in this series of preprints form @twoodward.bsky.social's group www.theurlist.com/wcmpapers

Pleasant surprise in my email this morning (for once)

Or just go to this starter pack - I will keep adding to this over the next little while. go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy Please spread the word & let me know if you'd like to be added or know of anyone I have forgotten!

Another cognitive mode detectable by task-based fMRI: Maintaining Internal Attention (MAIN). Anatomical patterns and how its BOLD changes are affected by autobiographical event simulation, working memory, task switching, self-reference and semantic association are here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mj52a

Ever wonder what cognitive modes are detectable by fMRI? Here we review how the language (LAN) mode activates over seven different tasks: two lexical decision tasks, metrical stress, noun/verb discrimination, semantic association, and facial emotion discrimination. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c83d7

Concurrent TMS-fMRI is hot stuff if you want causal inference with your whole-brain recordings. Come and hear me spill the beans on why you might want in on this magnet-on-magnet action - webinar on Jan 22nd: marketing.magventure.com/referral_reg....

📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience 🧵below...